Chris A. Ciufo, Editor, OpenSystems Media

Rather than face the rigors of component selection, design, test, and qualification when building a system from the ground up, there’s another way: GE Intelligent Platforms’ CRS-C2P-3CC1 and CRS-C3P-3CB1 off-the-shelf rugged systems are application-ready, prevalidated, 2-and 3-...

As new certification standards arise in the avionics, industrial control, and other industries, legacy x86 applications are required to recertify. Thus, LDRA’s x86 assembler flavor of its LDRA tool suite “enables certification for legacy applications that would not otherwise be...

Having been tried, tested, and proven to cut JTRS SDR waveform development time, 4DSP Inc.’s AD350 PMC expansion card is vended publicly these days. It is a good fit for MIMO testbed systems and wireless base stations, and it offers prototyping for multi-output and multi-input antenn...

SDR development isn’t a task for the faint of heart. The good news, though, is that Pentek’s Model 71690 L-Band RF tuner/digital digitizer module is streamlining the L-band SDR development platform proposition. The only things Model 71690 needs are a host system (this can be so...

While smartphones are all the rage in the consumer arena, mobile PDAs are extremely popular on the battlefield. Handheld US is stepping into the picture with its Nautiz X3 ruggedized PDA, which measures 150 x 67 x 23 mm and tips the scale at less than 260 grams. Complying with MIL-STD-810G...

Like sensor/weapon controls operators don’t already have enough on their mind – and they also have to remember to bring that extra flashlight so they can use their systems’ consoles once nighttime arrives or a room darkens. That could be one reason why Global Lighting Tec...

When planning for application and system security, military embedded systems designers have to think “out of the box” about what will go in the box. Hence, with many defense systems subject to Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) requirements, even if humans are put at risk,...

When dealing with challenging thermal management issues, many technicians would undoubtedly like to change the axiom “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” to “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of my system!” (as if the board would unde...